June 18, 2007

'Extensive Destruction' Of White House E-Mails Found

A preliminary report from the House Oversight Committee finds "extensive destruction" of e-mails sent from the White House on RNC accounts.

The panel, led by Chairman Henry Waxman, also found that "at least 88" White House officials past and present used RNC e-mail accounts. The administration originally said only "a handful" of such accounts existed, and later said the number was "50 over the course of the administration."

In his noon briefing, press secretary Tony Snow dismissed the idea that the e-mails were intentionally destroyed, but did concede that the 140,000 e-mails in Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove's RNC account was "a lot of e-mails."

Using campaign accounts for official White House business and destroying administration records are violations of the Hatch Act and Presidential Records Act, respectively. The committee's report can be found here [PDF].

Posted at 1:54 PM
Posted to: Bush Administration, Congress, Karl Rove
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